New Technologies at Work

People, Screens and Social Virtuality
Herausgeber: Garsten, Christina; Wulff, Helena

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. Career patterns, professional identities, speed of communication, time management, and mobility have been irrevocably changed in an amazingly short period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781859736449
• ISBN-10: 1859736440
• Artikelnr.: 21373918

Autorenporträt

Christina Garsten is Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University. Helena Wulff is Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: From People of the Book to People of the Screen
1. Living with New (Ideals of) Technology
2. The Computer as a Focus of Inattention: Five Scenarios concerning Hospital Porters
3. Digital Ditches: Working in the Virtual Grass Roots
4. Real-time
Real-place Market: Transnational Connections and Disconnections in Financial Markets
5. Mobile Workplacing: Office Design
Space and Technology
6. Claiming the Future: Speed
Business Rhetoric and Computer Practice
7. Networking as a Form of Life: The Transnational Movement of Internet Pioneers
8. Mainstream Rebels: Informalization and Regulation in a Virtual World
9. Steps on Screen: Technoscapes
Visualization and Globalization in Dance
10. Screening the Classroom: Students
Teachers and Computers in an Urban American School
11. Open-Source Software Development as Gift Culture: Work and Identity Formation in an Internet Community
Index